UNIFIL troops 'pelted with stones from Israel'

A UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon said its troops were pelted with stones on Wednesday from the other side of the border with Israel, which in turn denied involvement in any "aggressive" act."According to UNIFIL's preliminary reports, this morning on two occasions stones were thrown from the Israeli side across the technical fence and the Blue Line" in the Fatima Gate area of the border town of Kfar Kila, said United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon spokesman Neeraj Singh.

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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said Saturday it has launched an investigation into a roadside bomb blast that wounded six Italian peacekeepers, two of them seriously, and two civilians."For now, all we can say is that UNIFIL's forensics team is working with the Lebanese army to investigate the explosion," the mission's spokesman, Neeraj Singh, told AFP.Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the bomb attack which targeted a UNIFIL jeep on a main highway linking the capital Beirut to south Lebanon, where the troops are deployed.

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JERUSALEM — Militants in Lebanon fired four rockets into Israel on Thursday, setting off air raid sirens and startling a nation already on edge over turmoil along its northern and southern borders.j
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, said three rockets landed in northern Israel, while a fourth was intercepted by Israel’s “Iron Dome” rocket defence system. No one was injured, and the military dismissed the attack as an “isolated incident.”

An Israeli patrol crossed into Lebanese territory on Wednesday and captured a Lebanese shepherd near the border, the Lebanese army said in a statement."In a flagrant assault on residents of southern Lebanon... Enemy troops crossed the technical fence south of the village of Rmeish and kidnapped a Lebanese man, whom they took back into the occupied territories," or Israel, it said.The statement said the army was in contact with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which is tasked with monitoring the Lebanon-Israel border, in order to "free the citizen."

In what was the first clear instance of aggression by Israel toward Syria, overnight Israeli jets conducted a bombing run over a military site in Syria, targeting what according to Israel was a military convoy heading to Lebanon. As Al Arabiya reports: "Israeli jets bombed a convoy on Syria's border with Lebanon on Wednesday, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel's Lebanese enemy.

An Israeli patrol crossed a UN-drawn border into Lebanese territory at the disputed area of Kfar Shuba on Thursday, the Lebanese army said."A patrol of eight enemy (Israeli) soldiers crossed the line of withdrawal at the town of Kfar Shuba in an attempt to abduct a shepherd," an army spokesman told AFP.He said the shepherd had managed to escape but the troops had crossed 20 metres (22 yards) past the UN-drawn Blue Line, an informal border established after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in 2000, following a 22-year presence.

A UN peacekeeping patrol has found large quantities of explosives in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced on Sunday.The patrol stumbled on the explosives late Saturday after "observing suspicious movement of approximately five persons" near the town of Khiam, eight kilometres (five miles) from the border with Israel, a statement said.